Google Fiber Denies Service To Businesses

Google Fiber Denies Service To Businesses

While bringing Google Fiber to town has been touted as a boom to economic development, the KC Star’s development reporter Kevin Collison has a cautionary tale.

One intrepid entrepreneur came close to losing his shirt after investing in a river market building with designs on attracting other start-ups.

Joe Barnhill, who created the Spark Center, says while Google is hooking up homes and apartments all around him, they would not hook up his facility. He says he was told by Google officials, “they’re not in the business of hooking up businesses.” It’s for home use only.